Wednesday, May 21
|
6:00
p.m. Welcome Dinner: |
Keynote
Speaker: Meet Workshop Coordinators and Facilitators |
Thursday, May 22
|
8:30-9:30 General session: |
Introduction to the Making Industry Meaningful In College (MIMIC) Project |
| Overview of the MIMIC project including organization, scheduling, typical products, costs, student and project assessment, and spin off projects utilizing the MIMIC model. | |
| Presenters: Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch |
| 9:45 - 10:45 Breakout Session 1: LaSalle Room |
Walking an Organizational Trail: Organizing a MIMIC-like Project |
| Discuss project organization issues such as determining project objectives, recruiting teachers, encouraging administrative support, scheduling the project, setting student requirements, arranging for training and providing communication channels. | |
| Facilitators: Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson |
| 9:45 - 10:45 Breakout Session 2: Peru Room |
Seeking Rock Solid Workplace Skills: Integrating Workplace Skills into a Project |
| Address integration of workplace skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, goal setting, oral and written communication, decision making, listening and ethics. | |
| Facilitator: Sue Caley Opsal |
| 11:00 - 12:00 Breakout Session 3: LaSalle Room |
Bridging the Canyon to the Business Side: Developing the Business Side of a Project |
| Review marketing, entrepreneurship, and the money-handling issues for a project. | |
| Facilitator: Bob Reese |
| 11:00 - 12:00 Breakout Session 4: Peru Room |
Exploring the Waterfall of Technology: Utilizing Technology in a Project |
| Explore the technology that can make a project more exciting and realistic for your students and simpler for you. | |
| Facilitator: Mary Smith |
| 1:00 - 3:00 Roundtables: LaSalle Room |
Developing Your Project |
| Working in a small group, brainstorm project ideas for your school or college. From those ideas, begin to develop a project plan. | |
| Facilitators: Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch, Sue Caley Opsal, Bob Reese, Mary Smith, Koshu Jagasia |
Friday, May 23, 2008
| 9:00 - 10:00 Breakout Session 5: Peru Room |
Climbing the Cliffs of Assessment: Assessing the Project and the Students |
| Develop assessments that measure the progress and success of individual students, teams, and the project and also drive improvements in the project. | |
| Facilitator: Koshu Jagasia |
| 9:00 - 10:00 Breakout Session 6: LaSalle Room |
Watching the Flow of Leadership: Establishing a Leadership Team |
| Consider honoring students who demonstrate leadership potential, providing them with opportunities for growth, and utilizing their skills for your department, school or college. | |
| Facilitators: Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson |
| 9:00 - 10:00 Breakout Session 7: Illini Cabin |
On Demand: Topic to be determined by workshop participants |
| Participants will be surveyed to determine if a breakout session offered on Thursday should be repeated. | |
| Facilitator: To be determined |
| 10:15 - 10:45 General Session: LaSalle Room |
Q & A Session |
| Available to answer questions: Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch, Sue Caley Opsal, Bob Reese, Mary Smith, Koshu Jagasia. |
| 10:45 - 11:15 Working Session: LaSalle Room |
Finalizing Your Project Idea |
| Review and revise the project idea you began developing during the Roundtables. | |
| Facilitators: Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch |
| 11:15 - 12:00 General Session: LaSalle Room |
Sharing Your Project Idea |
| Describe the project you are planning for your school or college. | |
| Facilitators: Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch |
| 12:15 - Closing Lunch: LaSalle Room |
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Charles R. Novak |
| Discuss the next step: Submitting project plan |
Meet
the Workshop Team: Keynoters, Coordinators, Facilitators